From: Cyril Scetbon (cyril.scetbon_at_nonexisting.hamakor.org.il)
Date: Sun 25 Jul 2004 - 09:43:16 IDT
Is it the first time you patch this kernel ?
If no, try to get the original sources of this kernel and to apply the
patch on it.
Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to patch 2.6.6 to add support for the 4GB user space/ 4GB
> kernel space split. The patch I have is against 2.6.6-B7, whatever
> that is. It does not apply cleanly on vanilla 2.6.6.
>
> I have shaked, twisted and hit the patch into place, until it now
> applies cleanly on stock vanilla 2.6.6 (attached). There are still a
> few rough edges on it. However, that does not appear to be the
> problem. The problem is that when I try to compile this kernel using
> the Debian tools (make-kpkg), I get compilation error ON THE DOCS. It
> claims that "direct_strncpy_from_user" is defined twice in
> kernel_api.sgml. I tried tracing it back to the source, and found
> nothing meaningful - direct_strncpy_from_user is only defined once there.
>
> At this point I am at a loss. I don't know how the SGMLs are even
> generated, why it thinks it is defined twice, etc. I don't even know
> how to shut down the documentation generation - I don't need it. I
> know I can compile without the Debian make-kpkg, but I would really
> rather generate an easy to install package.
>
> Ideas, anyone?
>
> Shachar
>
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